This week’s Billboard Hot 100 has a new song from Linkin Park, “Lost,” which debuts at No. 38. This is the group’s first new top 40 single since 2012, when “Burn It Down” premiered and peaked at No. 30.
Chester Bennington, the band’s late leader, who passed away in 2017 at the age of 41, sings the song’s lead vocals.”Lost” will be featured on a 20th-anniversary deluxe reissue of the band’s 2003 album Meteora, due out on April 7. It was recorded during the sessions for that record and was stored away until its release this year on February 10.
The new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast features Katie & Keith discussing a variety of posthumous music releases, including those by Prince, Whitney Houston, 2Pac, Biggie, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Juice WRLD, Pop Smoke, and others. They also discuss how to balance fans’ insatiable appetite for new music from deceased legends with the complex moral issues surrounding doing so. Exists a correct method and a wrong way?
The Billboard 200 list for female albums has now seen the most weeks at No. 1 for SZA’s SOS in seven years, and Rihanna’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show had a significant impact on the charts, giving her largest streaming week ever in the United States.
Your one-stop shop for everything pop on Billboard’s weekly charts is the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast. A lively debate about the most recent pop news, entertaining chart statistics and anecdotes, new music, and special guest interviews with pop culture figures are always to be expected. The executive digital director of Billboard can be heard by casual pop fans and chart-crazy individuals.
